The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 7.1, the first feature
update of the NetBSD 7 release branch. It represents a selected subset
of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as
new features and enhancements.
Some highlights of NetBSD 7.1 are:
- Support for Raspberry Pi Zero.
- Initial DRM/KMS support fo [...]

The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 7.1, the first feature update of the NetBSD 7 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements.
Some highlights of NetBSD 7.1 are:
Support for Raspberry Pi Zero.
Initial DRM/KMS support for N [...]

The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 7.1, the first feature update of the NetBSD 7 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements.
Some highlights of NetBSD 7.1 are:
Support for Raspberry Pi Zero.
Initial DRM/KMS support for N [...]

I tagged the release candidate for DragonFly 4.8 – slightly delayed because of my involuntary time offline – and here’s the resulting automatic changelist. There’s ISO/IMG files uploaded now to the main DragonFly archive, which means they should be available at a mirror near you soon.

I had overflow from last week, so I have a good list for you, despite being offline for days.
Your Code is Junky. I haven’t thought about FrontPage in years, and that’s on purpose. It was a trainwreck.
Raiders of the Lost OS: Reclaiming a piece of Polish IT history. I have never heard of CROOK. (via)
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Way short this week because we had high winds in my area, knocking out power for most people. I didn’t lose power, but I lost my data link.
Anyone moved to PC-BSD(TrueOS) from macOS?
TrueOS First BSD?
Amazon S3 Integration with TrueNAS

Michael W. Lucas will be showing up tomorrow with physical copies of his books at the Grosse Pointe Library. (I’m assuming it will be both his fiction and non-fiction BSD books.) If you are near, I bet you can get a signed copy.

Prevent integer overflow in PF when calculating the adaptive timeout.
Mainly states of established TCP connections whould be affected
resulting in immediate state removal once the numer of states is
bigger than adaptive.start.
Disabling adative timeouts with
set timeout { adaptive.start 0, adaptive.end 0 }
is a workaround to avoid this bu [...]

In what can be described as perfect timing, Sepherosa Ziehau has produced a document comparing FreeBSD, several different Linux kernels, and DragonFly, for networking. He’s presenting it in the afternoon track of Day 3 for AsiaBSDCon 2017, starting later this week.
He’s published a snippet as a PDF (via), which includes some grap [...]

A little meta, this week.
Why Nothing Works Anymore. Occam’s Razor applies; most people undervalue design vs. cost. (via)
I miss Delphi
There’s more than one way to kill a Unix process
Sniffing out Unix processes using pgrep
cloudbleed hero graphics. You know what Cloudbleed is, correct? It’s hard to illustrate, is what [...]

If you follow commits closely, via source-changes@ or otherwise, you may already know that mandoc has grown another useful feature. Ingo Schwarze sent us this very nicely formatted article about the new mandoc to markdown converter:
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Slightly short this week, maybe because people are prepping for AsiaBSDCon? I have plenty of links for tomorrow’s Lazy Reading.
iXsystems Attends Container World 2017. I know what it’s really about, but it sounds like a convention where everyone talks about cardboard boxes.
NetBSD will be in Google’s Summer of Code 2017. [...]

The longstanding practice is to load kernel modules in loader.conf, as early as possible. That’s good, for anything that needs them.
However, that also can be bad. Your machine can be unbootable if there’s a problem with a module or loader.conf is messed up, since that file is read long before the startup process finishes. Ente [...]

Matthew Dillon has been doing a significant amount of work on cache lines, and I haven’t been linking to it because it’s hard to point at single commits with such a technical subject. However, he’s summarized it all, along with news on NUMA handling and vkernel improvements.